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Authentication Bypass in Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition

IdentifiersCVE-2025-13036CWE-362· Concurrent Execution using Shared…

CVE-2025-13036 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition. The issue is caused by a race condition on the login endpoint. According to the provided advisory context, an attacker can continually send requests to the login endpoint and, through concurrent request handling, obtain a valid authentication token without prior authentication. The vulnerability affects FactoryTalk Historian SE version 11, and Rockwell indicates the Historian issues were fixed in version 12.00.00.

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Impact

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Successful exploitation allows an unauthenticated attacker to bypass normal login controls and obtain a valid authentication token for the affected FactoryTalk Historian SE instance. This can enable unauthorized access to the application and associated sensitive process or historian data. The provided CVSS context indicates high confidentiality and integrity impact and low availability impact.

Mitigation

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If immediate patching is not possible, minimize exposure of FactoryTalk Historian SE by ensuring it is not internet-accessible, segmenting control system networks from business networks, placing affected systems behind firewalls, and restricting access to the Historian login interface and related services to trusted hosts and secure remote-access paths such as updated VPNs.

Remediation

Patch, then assume compromise.

Upgrade Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian Site Edition to version 12.00.00, which the provided advisory context identifies as containing the fix for this vulnerability.
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Rockwell AutomationFactorytalk Historian Seapplication
Rockwell AutomationFactorytalk Historian Site Editionapplication

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